The Neighborhood
Our goal is to reproduce the vibes of a university campus, but for all generations.
That has three parts:
- Cohousing: multiple houses, owned, 2-10+ families with similar-aged kids and grandparents, knock
down fences and share common spaces
- Coliving: one big house, rented, 8-20 bedrooms, shared kitchens
- A culture of progress: we host quarterly weekend unconferences
Living within walking distance of so many friends makes life serendipitous. That's why we try to concentrate
our efforts to one square mile in the heart of San Francisco.
Practically speaking, we focus on these three activities:
- Unconferences about progress: 3x/year, these help explorers find purpose and seed a culture
of agency, also they're fun
- Monthly cohousing meetups: so you can befriend each other: join
- Cohousing: we can help you and your group buy and develop property (email)
In 2022 we hosted meetups and supported new third spaces with resources and momentum. In 2023 we
learned that a well-designed weekend can seed a coliving house (albeit at great expense). In 2024 we'll
build a real estate business that makes realizing this vision sustainable.
The themes of our unconferences:
- Climate, Mar 23: recap
- AI alignment, Jun 23: recap
- Parenting & cohousing, Sep 23: recap
- Underrated problems in biology, Mar 24 apply
- Future of education & AI, with the goal of founding microschools, Sep 24: apply
- Abundance policy, state capacity, & collective intelligence, TBD: apply
- Sci fi storytelling, with half sci-fi builders and half sci-fi authors, TBD: apply
Other stuff we've done since picking the location in Feb '22:
- Helped Patricia and Adi start The Commons (location,
financing, connections)
- Started the Arc, a 15 bedroom coliving house on Alamo Square
- Inspired HF0, Solaris/Newton, and MadSci to establish here
- Started Treehouse, a 9 bedroom coliving house for climate founders
We're a 501c3 generously supported by Schmidt Futures.